This is a rather monastic approach to design; by denying color we have somehow atoned for past excesses.

He didn't seem to mind his role as the Super Bowl's atonement for past excess.

These were the maturing years that were supposed to mute past excesses.

Bush administration officials describe the new approach as an antidote to past federal excess.

Perhaps winter's shut-ins are more aware of their own past excesses.

But today some developers are choking on past excesses.

The wonderful capitalist future is its past brutal excesses?

Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past excesses.

The developers swear on a stack of blueprints that they will not repeat their past excesses.

We've got to pay the piper for past excesses.